Cell Wrap

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This short macro does a cell reformat making the cell text do a word wrap within the cell so you can see it all. Useful for long column headers when you're working with time series data such as met or soil climate data. Once you've added this macro to your library you may also find it useful to create a menu button for it.

option explicit
Sub Cell_Wrap()
' This shorty macro does the wrap text f(x) for cells so you can
' see what's in cells with lots of text.
'
   With Selection
       .HorizontalAlignment = xlGeneral
       .VerticalAlignment = xlBottom
       .WrapText = True
       .Orientation = 0
       .AddIndent = False
       .IndentLevel = 0
       .ShrinkToFit = False
       .ReadingOrder = xlContext
       .MergeCells = False
   End With
End Sub